It was 90 minutes into Tuesday's "American Idol: Season 7" episode before viewers got a quick few seconds backstage glimpse of Lowell's Amy Davis.
Other than that mere flash across the screen, Davis, 25, seemed to have disappeared from the most popular reality television talent competition on the airwaves.
But Davis, whose Hollywood audition last week received far more air time, did make it through another round of cuts.
And at 7 tonight on FOX, she will be trying to sing her way to make it to the final 24 round of contestants.
The two-hour broadcast, which was compiled from footage from last year's elimination competition in Hollywood, included plenty of tears, disappointment and audition performances of songs by The Doors, B.J. Thomas and Bryan Adams, but no footage of Davis performing.
"We've reached the moments when it's going to be brutal now," judge Simon Cowell told Davis and the 50 other contestants.
"It's do or die."
